| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ROOM 1. WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING -- ROOM 2. WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING -- INTRODUCTION. ART about AIDS -- CONCEPT and CONTEXT of WITNESSES: AGAINST OUR VANISHING -- PHOTOGRAPHIC SELFREPRESENTATION in WITNESSES and in the PRESS -- NAN GOLDIN'S COMMUNITY between MARGINALIZATION and DISSOCIATION -- SUMMARY and FUTURE PROSPECTS -- APPENDIX -- CREDITS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Backmatter |
| Summary |
In addition to being a medical, political, and social crisis, the AIDS epidemic in the United States also led to a crisis of artistic representation. This book reveals the important political and moral role of American photographers in the social discourse on AIDS based on the 1989 New York exhibition, 'Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing' curated by photographer Nan Goldin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Goldin, Nan, 1953- -- Exhibitions
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| SUBJECT |
Goldin, Nan, 1953- fast |
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Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing gnd |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) and art.
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AIDS (Disease) in art.
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AIDS (Disease)
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Art.
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Exhibitions.
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Medicine in the Arts
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Art
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Photography
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Exhibitions as Topic
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works of art.
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fine arts (discipline)
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exhibitions (events)
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Exhibitions
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Art
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AIDS (Disease)
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AIDS (Disease) and art
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AIDS (Disease) in art
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Radosh, Laura, translator.
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| LC no. |
2017288203 |
| ISBN |
9783110453072 |
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311045307X |
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9783110453089 |
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3110453088 |
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3110451506 |
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9783110451504 |
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3110451522 |
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9783110451528 |
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